OpenClipart an archive of public domain clip art that can be used for free for any use. Clipart ETC Over 58,000 peices of free black and white clipart from the Educational Technology Clearinghouse of Florida.
They also have a nice collection of free PPT backgrounds and maps.
WP Clipart High quality public domain clip art optimized for printing, integrates with Open Office.
Quietube : Video without the distractions Cut to the Chase An easy way to link to a specific part of a Youtube video. Animoto for Education Create your own music video VideoANT add annotations to video by putting markers on the timeline bar. Vuvox Fast layout and customization of photos, video, text and music. Jumpcut
Animasher Animate your photos GoAnimate Create cartoons with a mix of cartoon characters and your own photos Xtranormal Text to movies, write the script-make the movie. Pixton Create your own comics by clicking and dragging Stage'D Create 3D animated cartoons
Drawing
ArtPad Drawing and painting tool Dabbleboard Online whiteboard for collaborative work-- create, share and save drawings FlashPaint Draw, paint and share with commentary FlockDraw Real time collaborative drawing Myoats a community where people create designs using an online drawing application. Scribblar a collaborative whiteboard with audio and chat Scribbler transforms simple line drawings into art sketches Creatly shared draw and design tool (free version allows a max of 5 collaborators at one time)
General Organizers
Live Binders Make your own online "3-ring binder" to organize PDFs, videos, webpages, and images in one location.
Graphic Organizers and Mindmapping
Comprehensive Mind Map of Mindmapping SoftwareGreat overview off all types of mindmapping tools. Exploratree a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too. Mindomo a collaborative online mind mapping tool, used to be called MindMeister Gliffy Create and share diagrams and flow charts Lovely Charts Professional looking flow charts, organizational diagrams and more ReadWriteThink Graphic organizers and other interactive learning tools from NCTE Outline Maker a very basic outline template Wordle generates "word clouds" from text you enter. A wordle of Poe's The Raven
Blackboard Annotate websites or documents you upload Bookgoo Annotate, draw on or highlight documents Awesome Highlighter No registration required - only highlights. It's also a FireFox add-on.
Interactive Posters and Collage
Glogster This is the Glogster education site Vuvox Make collages by uploading and manipulating various media. WallwisherCreates a “wall” where you and others can place virtual sticky-notes, links, images and other digital content. You can save and share your walls.
Interactive Maps
Google Maps Associate your content with places on a map--example Google Lit Trips Stat Planet Interactive data visualization through maps and graphs, it's possible to upload your own data Wayfaring Annotate a map three ways: a waypoint (one that can be used in multiple maps), a note, or a path/route. MapSkip Add stories and pictures to any location in the world. Very simple to use and a teacher account is available. ZeeMaps an easy way to create interactive world maps. You can even add videos to your maps. TravellerspointCreate an interactive map that follows your travels.
Timelines
TimerimeMake timelines that link to images and text Xtimeline Link to videos and images
Google Forms Quiz Tutorial on how to create to create a quiz that grades itself in Google Docs--Forms. MystuDIYoEasy to make, great looking interactive quizzes with embed code. Quizzlet requires registration Charles Kelly's Online Quiz Generator for multiple choice quizzes. ClassMarker Online quiz maker will crate and mark quizzes QuizCenterFrom Discovery School, another tool to create, administer and grade quizzes online Cramberry Smart online flashcards that keep track of your progress
Create Games
ClassTools Make learning games using formats from popular 1980’s arcade games Philologus Use television games shows as templates for teacher and student created games PowerPoint Games Games created in PowerPoint, download the templates and adapt to your own needs. MightyQuiz Make games or play games made by others Map Games Geography games Jeopardy Labs Make Jeopardy games or use other teachers' templates. Free online tool includes scoring capability.
Edheads Build a cell phone, perform virtual knee surgery and hip surgery
Specialized Search Engines
Blind Search Try a query and get "blind" results and vote for the best response, then the Search engine brand name appears. Great for teaching kids to vary search strategies. Yolink A search engine ad-on that will search within your Google results to create a subset of results with the relevant text attached.
It's a download that creates a menu bar on your browser. Warning, It eats up 8 MB as an add-on. DiscoverEdCreative Commons open education resources search engine. It's new so it's still in BETA. Quintura A visual search engine that provides a searchable image of a tag cloud for a search as well as text links, also searches images and video. Good for visual learners. WolframAlpha a computational knowledge engine, great for statistical and scientific information.
Web 2.0 Tools
Table of Contents
Images
Photo Editing
Go2ConvertVery simple image conversion and resizingPicnik Simple photo editing online
FotoFlexer
FlauntR
Phixer
Pixir An advanced online image editor feature include laying, use the "express" version for simple editing
Fotobabble add audio to Flickr Photos
Picture2Life
Pixlr
Splashup an editing tool and photo manager
Web Resizer
SnipShot
Rasterbatormake really large posters from images
Image Generators
Spell with FlickrImage Chef
Flickr Toys
Add Letters
ImageGenerator.org
Picascii Turn a photo into ascii text
Splashr Different ways to display Flickr photos
Dumpr More photo fun, turn a photo into a drawing or an Easter egg
BeFunky Turn a photo into a cartoon, or a video into a cartoon animation.
Clip Art
OpenClipart an archive of public domain clip art that can be used for free for any use.Clipart ETC Over 58,000 peices of free black and white clipart from the Educational Technology Clearinghouse of Florida.
They also have a nice collection of free PPT backgrounds and maps.
WP Clipart High quality public domain clip art optimized for printing, integrates with Open Office.Audio and Podcasting
Sound and Images
Fotobabble add audio to any Photos and get embed code. Video tutorialText to Speech Reviews of free text to speech utilities available online.
Copyright Friendly Sound and Music
Music
Just Hear It Search by song, artist or album to automatically hear music from the web.Jamendo You can search for music from different countries as well as by artist and album.
ClassicCat Classical music
Educational CyberPlayGround
PurplePlanet Free to use under a CC attribution license, organized by category (calm, jazzy, blues, dramatic, etc.)
FreePlayMusic
Musicopen
Podsafe Audio Creative Commons licensed music organized by artist or genre
Incompetech Royalty Free Music Organized by music genre or feeling (i.e. calm or aggressive)
Opsound Creative Commons licensed music
Dance Industries Copyleft
SpinXpress Search audio, video or images licensed under CC
Sound Effects
Director in the Classroom A sound effects portal for educational usePartners in Sound Free Sound Effects
Shambles Sound Effects and Music Portal
Sound Snap
Sound Jay
Screencasting
Screenr Make a video screencast with audio and post to Twitter, Youtube, your iphone or embed anywhere.Jing Capture, narrate and film and share.
Saving a Video Posted on YouTube
SaveTubeKeepVid video converter
Video Editing
Quietube : Video without the distractionsCut to the Chase An easy way to link to a specific part of a Youtube video.
Animoto for Education Create your own music video
VideoANT add annotations to video by putting markers on the timeline bar.
Vuvox Fast layout and customization of photos, video, text and music.
Jumpcut
Video Hosting and Search
Nibipedia.com Educational YouTube Videos organized and categorized for easy searching.TeacherTube
YouTube
Vimeo Video hosting and sharing
Library of Congress YouTube Channel
YouEmbedTube create a YouTube carousel to post.
GoogleVideo
BlipTV
UChannel The UChannel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public.
Next Vista for Learning an online library of teacher- and student-made short videos for learners everywhere
Studio 4 Learning Academic video tutorials for all fields, including SAT test prep. Good intro to film tutorials here.
Animators
Animasher Animate your photosGoAnimate Create cartoons with a mix of cartoon characters and your own photos
Xtranormal Text to movies, write the script-make the movie.
Pixton Create your own comics by clicking and dragging
Stage'D Create 3D animated cartoons
Drawing
ArtPad Drawing and painting toolDabbleboard Online whiteboard for collaborative work-- create, share and save drawings
FlashPaint Draw, paint and share with commentary
FlockDraw Real time collaborative drawing
Myoats a community where people create designs using an online drawing application.
Scribblar a collaborative whiteboard with audio and chat
Scribbler transforms simple line drawings into art sketches
Creatly shared draw and design tool (free version allows a max of 5 collaborators at one time)
General Organizers
Live Binders Make your own online "3-ring binder" to organize PDFs, videos, webpages, and images in one location.Graphic Organizers and Mindmapping
Comprehensive Mind Map of Mindmapping SoftwareGreat overview off all types of mindmapping tools.Exploratree a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.
Mindomo a collaborative online mind mapping tool, used to be called MindMeister
Gliffy Create and share diagrams and flow charts
Lovely Charts Professional looking flow charts, organizational diagrams and more
ReadWriteThink Graphic organizers and other interactive learning tools from NCTE
Outline Maker a very basic outline template
Wordle generates "word clouds" from text you enter. A wordle of Poe's The Raven
Graphing
Create-A-Graph very easy graph creationAnnotation
Blackboard Annotate websites or documents you uploadBookgoo Annotate, draw on or highlight documents
Awesome Highlighter No registration required - only highlights. It's also a FireFox add-on.
Interactive Posters and Collage
Glogster This is the Glogster education siteVuvox Make collages by uploading and manipulating various media.
WallwisherCreates a “wall” where you and others can place virtual sticky-notes, links, images and other digital content. You can save and share your walls.
Interactive Maps
Google Maps Associate your content with places on a map--example Google Lit TripsStat Planet Interactive data visualization through maps and graphs, it's possible to upload your own data
Wayfaring Annotate a map three ways: a waypoint (one that can be used in multiple maps), a note, or a path/route.
MapSkip Add stories and pictures to any location in the world. Very simple to use and a teacher account is available.
ZeeMaps an easy way to create interactive world maps. You can even add videos to your maps.
TravellerspointCreate an interactive map that follows your travels.
Timelines
TimerimeMake timelines that link to images and text
Xtimeline Link to videos and images
Surveys
Survey MonkeyEasy Poll
Poll Daddy
Poll Everywhere Ask a question and get instant results from text messages displayed in powerpoint or in your browser.
Timers
Online StopwatchClass Timer
Quizzes
Google Forms Quiz Tutorial on how to create to create a quiz that grades itself in Google Docs--Forms.MystuDIYoEasy to make, great looking interactive quizzes with embed code.
Quizzlet requires registration
Charles Kelly's Online Quiz Generator for multiple choice quizzes.
ClassMarker Online quiz maker will crate and mark quizzes
QuizCenterFrom Discovery School, another tool to create, administer and grade quizzes online
Cramberry Smart online flashcards that keep track of your progress
Create Games
ClassTools Make learning games using formats from popular 1980’s arcade gamesPhilologus Use television games shows as templates for teacher and student created games
PowerPoint Games Games created in PowerPoint, download the templates and adapt to your own needs.
MightyQuiz Make games or play games made by others
Map Games Geography games
Jeopardy Labs Make Jeopardy games or use other teachers' templates. Free online tool includes scoring capability.
Edheads Build a cell phone, perform virtual knee surgery and hip surgery
Specialized Search Engines
Blind Search Try a query and get "blind" results and vote for the best response, then the Search engine brand name appears. Great for teaching kids to vary search strategies.
Yolink A search engine ad-on that will search within your Google results to create a subset of results with the relevant text attached.
It's a download that creates a menu bar on your browser. Warning, It eats up 8 MB as an add-on.
DiscoverEdCreative Commons open education resources search engine. It's new so it's still in BETA.
Quintura A visual search engine that provides a searchable image of a tag cloud for a search as well as text links, also searches images and video. Good for visual learners.
WolframAlpha a computational knowledge engine, great for statistical and scientific information.